Tuesday, December 13, 2011

THAI PRAWN SOUP (TOM YUM GOONG / TOM YAM KUNG)


THAI PRAWN SOUP

Ingredients (Serves 2)

10 prawns, peeled and cleaned
5 glasses of water
2 table spoons of fish sauce
3 kaffir lime leaves
1 – 2 limes, juiced
3 – 4 mushrooms, cubed
4 – 6 cherry tomatoes
1 – 2 lemon grass (or 1 – 2 desert spoon of lemon grass paste)
Chilli peppers, chopped (depends on how much you can bear spicy :P)
Coriander to your liking
1 Spring onion, chopped
A package of tom yam kung paste or a block of chicken broth
1 small galangal (don’t worry if you have none, it’s optional especially if you have the tom yam kung paste :P)

Method:
  1. Add the lime juice, the kaffir leaves, the galangal, fish sauce, the lemon grass, the paste and the broth into the water and bring to a boil.
  2. Add the mushrooms and boil for 1 minutes more.
  3. Add the prawns and boil till they are cooked.
  4. Add the chilli peppers and the tomatoes. Boil for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
  5. Garnish with coriander and spring onion.
tom yam kung

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